Europe’s leaders need to open their eyes.
Source: Japan Times: The recent election was a wake-up call; Europe’s leaders need to open their eyes. More:
‘Muslim Glastonbury’ challenges perceptions of Islam in Britain
Ranging from sectarianism to sex, a four-day event nicknamed the “Muslim Glastonbury” is setting out to challenge perceptions of Islam in Britain. Living Islam, which began on Thursday at Lincolnshire Showground and continues over the weekend, is a celebration of Eid al-Fitr, which was marked by Muslims around the world this week at […]
Will Russia outright invade Ukraine?
Source: The Daily Best Is this just saber rattling? It’s possible. Russia has been poised to invade Ukraine on multiple occasions and it has not happened yet. But in the weeks before and after the downing of MH17, thousands of “tourists” driving tanks and armored vehicles that appear to be […]
Local MP Calls for Protection of Ahmadiyya Community in Pakistan
seemamalhotra.com: Seema Malhotra has called on the British Government to do more to protect the Admadi community in Pakistan. Ms Malhotra’s call comes in light of the latest harrowing attack […]
International Ahmadiyya Muslim Yearly Convention UK (Jalsa Salana UK 2014)
Published on Aug 2, 2014 Join us on MTA for live coverage of Jalsa Salana UK 2014 from Friday 29th – Sunday 31st August 2014. Twitter: @JalsaConnect / @muslimtv Facebook: […]
‘Islam is reviving British values’, says former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams
Epigraph: Indeed, Allah enjoins justice, and the doing of good to others; and giving like kindred; and forbids indecency, and manifest evil, and wrongful transgression. He admonished you that you […]
Baptism: A Changing Sacrament
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times According to Encyclopedia Britannica: Baptism is a sacrament of admission to the Christian Church. The forms and […]
Love thy Neighbor is a Christian Value, Hate and Stereotyping aren’t
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had […]
‘No Evidence’ Kidnapped Israeli Is British
Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has said there is no evidence to suggest that a soldier reported to have been abducted by Hamas is a British citizen. It has been reported that 23-year-old Hadar Goldin, who kidnapped on Friday morning, held British citizenship. Mr Hammond said the abduction was still being investigated, […]
Turks divided over Erdogan’s Islamic direction
Dawn: WASHINGTON – As Turkey prepares to vote for its first ever directly elected president, a new US survey says the Turks are divided over the current government’s efforts to […]
HSBC closes some Muslim groups’ accounts
HSBC bank has written to Finsbury Park Mosque and other Muslim organisations in the UK to tell them that their accounts will be closed. The reason given in some cases was that to continue providing services would be outside the bank’s “risk appetite”. The wife and teenage children of a […]
Richard Dawkins, what on earth happened to you?
Guardian: Dawkins in 2014 is a man so convinced that he possesses God-like powers of omniscience that he can’t understand why everyone is angry at him for pointing out the […]
Echoes of the Great War Resonate a Century Later
Source: Stratfor On July 28, 1914, exactly one month after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife were shot dead, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. The stage was set for World War I, an inevitable result of decades of political maneuvering, militarization, alliances and planning for a conflict that […]
Celebrities & Nobel laureates stand up for #Gaza in new video: Freedom for Palestine
Published on Jul 28, 2014 Jewish Voices for Peace: Prominent Jews and Palestinians and others stand for Palestine in this heartbreaking video with Jonathan Demme, Gloria Steinem, Tony Kushner, Diana […]
"Only Islam bothers me more and more,"
Source: The Local “I don’t believe in God, but at the same time Christianity, Judaism or Buddhism don’t bother me. Only Islam bothers me more and more,” wrote Nicolaus Fest, vice editor-in-chief of the Bild am Sonntag newspaper in the editorial published on Sunday. Fest then laid out why Islam’s […]
“Only Islam bothers me more and more,”
Source: The Local “I don’t believe in God, but at the same time Christianity, Judaism or Buddhism don’t bother me. Only Islam bothers me more and more,” wrote Nicolaus Fest, vice editor-in-chief of the Bild am Sonntag newspaper in the editorial published on Sunday. Fest then laid out why Islam’s […]
eDigest: Norway: Ramadhan in the Land of the Midnight Sun
Epigraph: The month of Ramadan is that in which the Qur’an was sent down as a guidance for mankind with clear proofs of guidance and discrimination. Therefore, whosoever of you […]
Pakistani mob kills two children including a baby and their grandmother after 'blasphemous' Facebook post
Telegraph: A seven-year-old and her baby sister were killed alongside their grandmother, police said, after another member of the Ahmadi sect was accused of blasphemy. A mob killed a seven-year-old and her baby sister along with their grandmother, a member of the Ahmadi sect, after another follower was accused of […]
Pakistani mob kills two children including a baby and their grandmother after ‘blasphemous’ Facebook post
Telegraph: A seven-year-old and her baby sister were killed alongside their grandmother, police said, after another member of the Ahmadi sect was accused of blasphemy. A mob killed a seven-year-old and her baby sister along with their grandmother, a member of the Ahmadi sect, after another follower was accused of […]
Six seconds of exercise ‘can transform health’
Source: BBC Short six-second bursts of vigorous exercise have the potential to transform the health of elderly people, say researchers in Scotland. A pilot study involving 12 pensioners showed going all-out in very short bursts, reduced blood pressure and improved general fitness over time. The team at Abertay University believe […]